gt l / 4 t 1 rtss. SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, Ation ilexico—'rne Monroe Doctrine. gb the Editor of The Press: am: Those busy men, the Blairs, are seeking -notoriety by pressing the Monroe Doctrine vpo n public attention, as though it was in their special charge. lam a 'believer in that doctrine, and hope the Administration will maintain it. Many discreet, men think it may involve us in a European war. That is possible ; and our Government, in view of seen apossibility, should provide for it—but bow? This I have not seen clearly, until in reading the very able speech of Hon. William D. Kelley, of January 16th, I found the following practical and Statesmanlike saggestionS. Will you not lay them before your readers in this connec tion And mark you, kr. Speaker, agnin,how near. ly the races are balanced in Louisiana, Georgia, and Alabama, In Louisiana there are 357,456 whites, and 350,516 colored people. Of whites, Gleorgia, there are 591,550, and, of colore p e ople, - there are 40,736. In Alabama the . - whites number 5;26,271, while there are, of colored, 437,930. And, in Florida, there is the fame near approach to eqnality of numbers ; Tile white population being 77,747, and the colored. 62,677. Are these people, by our de cree, to remain dumb and voiceless in free dom I They are no longer slaves. War and the high prerogative of the President called into exercise by the war, have made them - free. Will you inflict , upon them all "the miseries predicted for - the free colored peo -lilt of Tennessee in the extract which I have read to you I No ,• rather let us bled them to our Government by enabling them to protect their interests, share its power, and appreci ate its beneficence. This we can do; and the alternative is to so degrade them that they - will prove an annoyance and an object of dis trust to their white neighbors, an element of - .weakness to the Government, and a constant _invitation to diplomatic intrigue and war by the ambitious man who dreams ota Latin Em pire in. America, and who, following the ex ample of the States of Central and South Ame rica, will accept the descendant of Africa as a :Basque and a citizen of his proposed Empire. And Iliac it may not be amiss to pause for a Suoinenirand contemplate some ulterior con .seqnenees of our action on this subject. Trained in the school of democracy, lam a believer in the "manifest ilestinja 7 of my country. Having regarded the acquisition by • Dlr. Jefferson of the Louisiana Territory as wise and beneficent, though unwarranted by the Constitution, beholding great advantages M the acquisition of Florida., and having be lieved that, without war, could we have pa tiently waited, Texas would have come to us liaturally as a Mate or States of the Union, I am used to dreaming of the just influence the 'United States are to exercise, from end to end. of the American continent. Among the most ephemeral products of our era will he the Franco-Austrian Empire in Mexico, if - we be but true to our own principles in this season of doubt and perplexity'. Our infidelity to principles alone can give it perpetuity. Within its limits, the question of color is not apolitical or asocial question ; it is - purely one of taste. There, as in Central and South America, the colored man is a freeman; and we are to determine whether the sympa thies of these millions of people within our own borders are to be with the Government whose .eupreillaey they have aided in re-establish ing, or with the and ambitious man who pledge them citizenship on condition that they aid him in carrying the limits of his Latin empire to the northern boundary of the Gulf Stal es of America. To them the United States or Mexico will be the exemplar nation of the world. Before her ruder laws all men are equal. let ours be not less broad and just. The tropical and malarious regions of Cen tral America hare, during the prevalence of slavery, seemed to be the natural geographical boundary of our influence in that direction. Tropical regions are not the home of the white man. They were not made for him. God did not adapt him to them. They are prolific in -wealth, invite to commercial intercourse, yield many tlii ngs necessary to the success of our arts and lialustry,and will one day afford a market for immense masses of our produc tions; but we cannot occupy them ; we cannot develop their resources ; nor can the negro, in the ignorance and degradation to which we - have hitherto doomed him. We have at length made hint a soldier; and, if need be, be will carry our arms and our Hag triumphantly over that, to us, pestilential region ; and, if we make liim a citizen open to his Children the school house ; gi ve h im the privilege of the work-shop, the studio, the hall of science • admit him to the delights and inspirations oeliteratime, phi losophy, poetry—in brief, if we recognize him as a man, and open to him the broad fields of American enterprise and culture, he will see that nature has given him the monopoly of the - wealth of that region, and will blvss the world by making hituself the master of it. By this means, and this alone can we extend our in thience over that region and prepare for the ultimate Americanization of those drained by the Orinoco, the Amazon, and the Parana. As a citizen, nature will prompt the colored man to achieve - these grand results ; but if we leave the race a disfranchised and disaffected class in our midst, numbering millions, and embracing hundreds of thousands of men,' ho, in pursuit of freedom, have bared their breasts to the storm of battle, and who are no longer debarred by statute from access to the sources of thought and knowledge, they will, let me reiterate the fact, be a ready and power ful ally to any power that may be disposed to disturb our peace, and that will promise them the enjoyment of the rights of men as accorded to every citizen by its Government. THE KENTUCKY ELECTION. PROGRESS OF THE. CANVASS-THE NAMES OF THE CONGRESSIONAL NOMINEES The election in Kentucky for State Tree- Surer, members of Congress, and the Legisla, tare is to take place on lkfmaday, the 7th of August. The canvass on both sides has been so earnest, and the issues involved so great, that considerable interest is felt throughout the country as to the result. On that day Ken tucky will decide whether she will stand for Freedom or for Slavery. It will be remem bered that the Kentucky LegiOatinre, at its last session, rejected the constitutional amend: ment. The true Union men of the State, not daunted by this Legislative bowing to the 44 sum of all villainies,. determined to make the forthcoming election the test by which Ken- Ilickrs true position shall be evident to the 'world. They nominated candidates pledged to Support the amendment, and inaugurated a canvass which for earnestness and straig,htfor_ werdness has never been excelled in the State. We arc glad to learn by late advices from the State, that the sanguine anticipations enter tained by the Union men are likely to be realized. The issues involved were clear ly and distinctly drawn, and both parties bad their greatest speakers on the stump. On the Union side were Governor Dramlette, ex- Governor Magofen, George D. Prentice, Gen. Rousseau, Gen. Logan, General Palmer ' (Com 'mantling the Military department of the State,) Representative Kasson, of lowa, and Several other distinguished gentlemen. They were ably supported by the Louisville Journal and other newspapers in the interior. The people are thoroughly alive to the contest, as the belief has become almost general throughout the State that, no matter whether the amend ment is adopted or not, slavery is dead there and the sooner they acknowledge the fact the better it will be for them. The exodus of slaves from the State, within the last few months, has been very great indeed, and if the came Slieldd COntialle for any length of time, the State will, in a very little white, have fewer slaves than Delaware. The fol lowing are the names of the different can dilates for Congress OPPOSITION' 'Districts. MEM Ut. C. 1). Bradley, Ist, 1 4 , L. Trimble 2d. Ueo.ll. Teaman. 2(1. B. Q. Ritter. 3d. J. 11. Lowry. • 3d. Henry Crider. 4th. Marion C. 'Taylor. ,4th. A. Harding. sth. Lovell H.R.ousseau. , sth. Hobert Mallory. 6th. G. Clay Smith. 1 6th. A. IL Ward. 71h. Speed S. Fry. 7th. G. S. Shanklin. Sth.Wrn. H. Randall. Sth. T. T. Garrard. eth. Samuel McKee, 19th, J, Smith liurtt. The Union candidate for Treasurer is Capt. W. L. Neale, of Madison county; the Opposi tion is James H. Garrard, of Clay county. In the Fifth Congressional district, which includes the city of Louisville, three candi datesat'a running for Congress—General 10 11 3 seau, Mr. Mallory, and Mark Munday. Mr Mallory is the present incumbent, and Gene ral Rousseau, a noble soldier, who has fought all through the war, is the true Union note nee. Mr. Munday also claims to be a Union candidate, but as he has not the slighteS. Chance of election, his remaining in the can vase strengthens Mr. Mallory's chances fo • election. The Louisville Journal op(n1 I charges him with entertaining the intentio of defeating General Rousseau, and if h Should not withdraw his dreams will be r Tike Connecticut Murder—Confession of the Murderer. The Hartford Times of the 3cl says that Alfred Starkweather has confessed the murder of his mother and sister at Manchester: "The con fession, which was not unexpected by those - best informed of the facts, was made by the prisoner in the jail in Hartford, to Mr. James Campbell, of Manchester, the father of the girl to whom the prisoner was engaged to be mar ried. The chief of police, believing that he - would acknowledge more to Campbell than to -anybody else, requested the latter to go to the jail yesterday afternoon, where the wretched young Than, discarding all his previous lies and contrivances to avoid detection, made a clean breast of it, and confessed the awful ,crime. "Ile acknowledged, after some questioning, - that he had butchered his mother, and then his sister, with the axe; and then, to make certain of the fiendish job, he had repeatedly plunged his butcher-knife into their throats -and • bosorias ; winding 11 1 , the deed of horror by setting the bed on nre, and then his own cloWn stairs. "' I did it,' be said ; I did it, Mr. Campbell, outs of love for your daughter, and nothing else. I felt I must have that money; for with out it she wouldn't marry me ; and I got the money. , " A letter written by the murderer to Mr. -Campbell, - filled nearly four pages, and the, statement was made that the writer was now in a condition to marry Miss C., as he had succeeded, through forgery, in getting money to the amount or four thousand dollars; and it also said that he was about to Coniunt an atrocious —; leaving the intended crime unnamed. The forgeries alluded to are be lieved to have never been committed, and his counsel will claim this letter as proof of the prisoner's insanity; though it may have been written to deceive the girl's father into the belief that the prisoner bad money enough. to _get married with. "Starkweather told the police, during the examination following the murder, that he had pm-chased his mother's interest, for one thousand five hundred dollars, in the farm lhat lie had got a deed of the property, which conveyed it to Miss Campbell, and that on Ilwir 'marriage it was to be recorded. lie also stated thathe had made a bill of sale of all his stoek—horses and cows—to Miss Campbell's father, and that this, together with the deed of the farm, had been stolen fly the two mur derers. " When urged by Officer_ Cowles to confess the crime, and being given to understand that -jib e , -would do eon irny would be contrived to get him safely lAT, hcl mplicli/ knew what •sort , of a fellow Chandierlain was too well to make any seen confession, even if he were guilty, for Chamberlin would spot him and Tmold him.' • - He also said. Do you think if I were guilty, I would be such a fool as to leave that butcher-knife on the body fa The funeral of the -victims was attended Bile afternoon, and the bodies were - conveyed •• to litittforti and I;urfe3 in the spring" Grove cemetery,by the side of the husband and father, An immense crowd of people assembled at the funeral, and the scats erected in front of the 'house were filled by persons of both sexes from all the country around, eager to see the impressive ceremonies and hear words of the piston" THE FIRST Asismeast NewspAreas.—There was not a newspaper printed in thei English colonies, throughout the continent Of North America, until the 24th of April, 1701, when the Boston News Leader was' .issued on alialf sheet, with small plea type. It was published by John Campbell 1 a ScOtellmall; bookseller and postmaster. he contents of the first umfber were the Queens speech in the , English Parliament, a few articles under the Boston head, one advertisement, extracts from London papers . , and four paragraphs of marine news. Advertisements were inserted "at a reasonable rate, from two pence to five In 1721 James Franklin established a news paper in Boston. The paper was severely cri -1 iCal ; somewhat hostile to the clergy. Franklin became unpopular; was censured and imprisoned for "scandalous libel." James Franklin was "strictly forbidden to print the New England Courant without a su pervision," &c. He evaded this order of super vision by substituting his brother's name for his own. The Courant lived three years, The American Weekly mercury of Philadel phia, issued in 171'2, was the third newspaper Printed in the colonies. It was made up of quaint advertisements and short paragraphs of antique news. The Pennsulrania Gazette,. edited by Dr. Fianklin, and published in 149 was the next step towards journalism. In its prospectus Franklin announces his intention to make a good, readable journal, and in his ideas it is easy to see that he was far in advance of his contemporaries. His paper consisted of four small pages, and the subscription was ten shil lings a year. In 1735 Thomas Fleet esta.olished the Boston Evening Post. Fleet was born in England, and learned his trade there. He once advertised a Negro woman for sale as follows: "To be sold by the printer of this paper, the very best negro woman in this town. She has had the small-pox and measles ; is as hearty as a horse, as brisk as a bird, and will work likes beaver." Fleet was a humorous fellow, and made money out of his paper. The Pennsylvania Towrnal and TRekly Ad vertiser was started about 1760. At the time of the stamp act, in 170, the paper came out in mourning, with the motto "The times are dreadful, doleful, dismal, dolorous, and dollar less." There was also a death's head in one corner of the page, and under it these words : "0! the fatal stamp." A journal called the New York Gazette nom rished a little while in 1771. It was remarkable in no parkable. The first daily paper in the tinned States was the Pennsytroine_Packei, afterwards called the Daily Advertiser; started in 1791. These were the first rude attempts at Ame rican journalism, and, as such, are worthy of mention. Upon the advent of the daily paper, the ideas of collating and digesting the news grew more and more comprehensive, and I from MO up to the present time the American newspaper leas grown steadily, until it repre sents the whole world.—Npringlield Union. RELIGIOES INTELLIGENCE. ED31312 the Progress of Ten Tears,--Tind laden Rev, Francis Church, pastor of the First T.T. Church, preached his tenth anniversary ser mon. At the commencement of his pastorate the membership was twenty-live, and three elders; now. with all the changes, the deaths, reMOVO,IS, etc., the present membership is three hundred and fourteen. Five hundred and fifty have actually been added to the ori ginal number, however. The pastor has preached fifteen hundred and fourteen ser mons, solemnized two hundred and forty-one marriages, and soothed the last moments of fifty-one of his dock, who have died in ten years. A debt with which the church began its career is now almost entirely cancelled, and a bright future is before the congregation. A Large Excursion.—The congregation of St. Joseph's Church went to Atlantic City on Thursday, making the largest excursion that ever passed over the road. There were forty eight ear on the train, transporting four thou sand and fourteen persons. Cornet-StOne Laid. —The corner-stone of a new chapel for the Sisters of St. Joseph, at Chestnut Hill, was laid on Thursday after noon with appropriate ceremonies, by Rt. Rev. Bishop Wood. The Obsequies of the late Bishop Poller—A Bug gestion.—lt is believed that the solemnities over the remains of Bishop Potter will be held in Christ Church. A committee is already en gaged in making the necessary arrangements. A correspondent of the _Recorder of this city makes some suggestions concerning the fune ral and its method of conduct, which we print, as they seem good: Firstithat the-bells of all our own churches be muffled and tolled at the time of the fune ral ; that the bishops and presbyters wear crepe scarfs over the Surplice, instead of the MIMI silk ones 5 that, unless the tower of the church is to be used by the clergy at the rune ral ceremonies, the same be thrown open to the public, in order that a larger number of persons maybe accommodated than the church will contain; that, if practicable, the lid of the coffin be removed in the church, that the many citizens may have the opportunity of a last look at the, mortal remains of one so universally respected and beloved. Tbat the clergy of all denominations be in vited, to be assigned a place as a body, imme diately after the Episcopal clergy, and that pews be reserved for them. That due notice be published in the daily papers, of the order of the funeral solemnities. It is true that Bishop Stevens is to deliver a funeral sermon during the sitting of the General Convention, yet, as many may not hear it, it would be Very gratifying to listen to a brief tribute to the memory of the lamented deceased at the close of the lurial service, either from the Bishop, or some one whom he may see fit to appoint. itenovated.—The Thirty-eighth-street M. E. Church, Rev. Jacob Dickerson, pastor, has been undergoing a thorough renovation, and will be reopened. to-morrow. Progperons Church,—The Ebenezer 3f. E. Church, Manayunk, Rev. J. IL Turner, pastor, have paid off their entire debt, including a mortgage on the ground, and all floating obli gations. This desirable result was accom plished by private subscription. So greatly has the Sunday-school increased, that addi tional accommodations are required and pro posed, ,S , lenday moot dmvenilon.—A. Conference Sunday School Convention will meet at the Union Methodist Church on the 25th of Sep tember next. It will be composed of the pre siding elders, pastors, and two delegates from each school, and will be in session, it is ex pected, about two days. Much interest is al ready excited, and every preparation is mak ing to provide the gentlemen who may come here to attend the session 'with comfortable homes during their stay. A special request is made by the committee having the matter in charge, that the subject be brought promi nently before the schools by each and every pastor. .hapromment—Two towers have been placed en St. Michael's Catholic Church, at Second and Mister streets, improving its appearance considerably. Personot.—Rev. T. W. J. Wylie, D. D., pastor of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church of this city, and professor in the Reformed Presbyte rian Theological Seminary, sailed on Saturday last in the steamship Caledonia, for Glasgow, Scotland. The Disc(ples of ehrist.—Aoorrespondent sends us the following extract, from the Baltimore American, concerning this denomination: The growth of this body of Christians, some times called Camphellites, is very rapid. They had their origin in this country, only about forty year's ago 4 but they number cow, in the. United States alone, over six hunted Licoiciaras communicants, while they are growing rapidly in Great Britain, the Canadas, the West Indies, and Australia. As a denomination, they have always been devoted to the interest of education, and the diffusion of general in telligence. They hare now under their con trol thirteen tirst•elaSS colleges, and in addi tion a large number of academies and higher seminaries of learning. They now publish a quarterly, four weekly, and eleven monthly papers, besides innumerable tracts, pamphlets, and miscellaneous matter. Their statistics show that they have four thousand two hun dred preachers in the field in this coun try, many of whom are men of high intellectual culture and talent. Their great strength lies in the "Valley of the Mississippi," the State of Kentucky alone hav ing one hundred and thirty thousand persons belonging - to that Church. They claim to have no creed but the Bible ; and to call Bible things I.)y Bible names. They contend that they occupy the ground held by the primitive Christians, and teach thatch/ Christians should unite,upon the word of God. However much in error their doctrinal tenets may be regarded by their religious friends, the fact cannot be disguised that during the past thirty or forty years they have made more rapid progress than any other denomination in the United States. There is, we believe, one church of this de nomination in this city, located at Twelfth and Melon streets. —ln the Lutheran Church there have been donated in the lost year to Illinois University upwards of 0,000; to Ilarttviek Seminary, /few York,slo,ooo to the Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania : $30,000; to the New Seminary at Philadelphia $50,0N; to the Wittenberg , College, Ohio, $05,00i/ ; to the Penn sylvania College, at Gettysburg , $85,000 ;making grand total of over a quarter of a million of dollars. The Eplaeopul, Methodist, of Richmond, July 20th, lemTs that Ilistwp Andrew has author ized Bev. James A. Duncan to announce that the Bishops of the Methodist Ep , iscopal Church South will meet in Columbus, breorgla, August lath, 1865. He requests that all Annual Conferences will meet this full or winter, and elect deleg.mtes to the General Conference to meet April Ist, 1800. The Pro-slavery Baptist ministers of Mis souri, are determined to keep up their con nection with the Southern., instead of North ern, church societies of Baptists. But the loyal ministers, on the other hand, have also begun to organize. The Old School Presbyte rians have likewise reorganized a Presbytery in Southwest Missouri. The arrangement was consummated on the 15th ult., at Springfield, Mo., where four churches, with as many minis ters, were organized under the name of the Presbytery of Southwest Missouri. • The Universal Israelite Alliance in Eu rope is making a vigorous effort in behalf of schools, as the chief element in the emancipa tion and revival of their people. They are de voting their attention not only to those on the continent, but beyond European boundaries, whose condition has scarcely changed for In Moscow there are 100,000 Jews ; in Tunis and Tripoli 80,0e0; in European Turkey, :M0 00, and 400,000 in Asiatic Turkey, Syria, and Palestine; 80,000 in Mesopotamia; and large numbers in Asia, and Central Africa. These people are erthilied by political oppression, and kept in moral bondage through their ig nOraUee. Later intelligence concerning the re bellion of the English Benedictines, shows that all the, monk % in the monastery at Nor wich, save One, Soi”e4 to it, oud that if the monks ;bad been firm as they were unani mous, the rale of Father Ignatius would have Father been at an end. lgnatius found, how ever, no difficulty in putting himself again in Possession of the convent buildings, and in coercing all the monks into sipinission. The iliolop of wirobesterlii . ts deemed that lights, incense, and eucharistic vastineidg tatty be used in the churches of his diocese—a decision which will greatly delight the Puseyitcs. A VERY PERTINENT QUESTION. - WC notice in reading the Southern papers that a large ii11)01111t of ink ar,d eleqUence are expended us 1 elfin g the late rebel (Generals, and the leading : 4 0uthern traitors generally, while not one 'sold of praise is bestowed upon the Generals of the - Union army, or upon the rank and Me, whOkie valor saved the republic.: The question arises, whether this is the way in which they Intend constantly to show their gratitutlel— Cincinnati Gazette. CITY. TDB CIULDItDi!' OF TIM BATTLE-FOAM. --Most of our readers will remember the his , t orical incident of the dead soldier of Gettys burg and his children. Sergeant ituinisten was found on the field of Gettysburg rafter the battle, dead; holding in hiS brave hand the pic ture of his three beautiful children. When mortally wounded, he dragged. himself as far away from the scenes of carnage as he could, that he might be alone with his God and his little ones.. Ile expired with the ferrotype likeness so placed within his hand that the picture-faces no doubt met his dying gaze. A stain of blood may yet be seen on the relic. This pieture,taken possession of hyDr. Bourne, of this city, led, through his exertions, to the finding of the children and their widowed mo ther. Four months had elapsed, however, be fore this desired result Was obtained. The poor widow numiston had nearly given up hope of hearing anything of the sergeant. A newspaper notice, describing the picture, caught the eye of a lady who knew the dis tressed family. Dr. Bourne was written to, and a photograph copy of the picture was sent. In a Instant part of New York; live hundred miles from here, the mother and children were made acquainted with the fate of their loved one. The family were in distressed circum stances. The picture taken from the dead. father's hand having been photographed, and the copies sold in large numbers for their bene fit, the family were comfortably provided for. The children are' kept at school, and a home has been purchased for the family at Portville, W. Y. Rik now intended to interest Superintend ents and children of Sunday-schools, through out the land, with a view of benefiting many other families in like circumstances from the same cause, and by the same means. A heauti- • ful piece of music, composed upon the touching incident, entitled, " The Children of the Battle field," is sold with the photographic picture% and the profits go into a fund for orphans, under the control of the Association for the Founding of a Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, and the establishing en Asylum' for Soldiers' Or- Phans. The Sabbath-schools, generally, are taking a lively interest in the matter. NEW ENGINE HOCSE.—Next Thursday week, the 17th instant, being the sixty-sixth anniversary of the formation of the Hope Hose and Steam Fire Engine Company, they will take formal possession of their new house on Pine street, above Second. The pro perty formed part of the Willing estate. The old mansion-house has been torn out, and a new iron front has been put into the first floor, with two large double doors and three small ones. Two tracks are laid upon the floor of sufficient length to hold two rows of apparatus three deep. To the left of the en trance is the hose tower and entrance to the second story. The tower is tour feet square and fifty-six feet high, thus allowing a section of hose to be extended its full length. The wails of the blinding are made in - imitation of Piston stone. The sitting-room is on the first floor, and is twenty-two by thirty feet. In the rear of this room is the etable, paved with granite blocks. It has four stalls, two of which are floored with boards, and two lined with fine briek-Clay, The parlor on the second floor is forty feet square, and is to be freseond in the highest style of the art. The bunk-room adjoining is twenty by fifty-six-feet, and con tains twenty-eight single closets. The ceiling is eighteen feet high, frescoed throughout in panels and centre pieces. The floor is carpeted with Brussels, and there are twenty-two iron bedsteads in the room. • The bath-room con necting with the bunk-room is fitted up in ad mirable style. The dining-room is on the third story; it is large, and well adapted for the purposes for which it is intended. THE HEGIRA TO THE SEA-SHORE. —The sweltering heat of the city of bricks and mor tar has caused a hegira to the sea , :shore. On last Saturday afternoon a thousand ladies and gentlemen took advantage of the two o'clock fast train, and reached the popular "city by the sea" at flve minutes past four o'clock. The same train will run this afternoon, start ing at two o'clock from Vine-street wharf, to return by nine o'clock on Monday morning. Co]. Bryant, the principal agent at the ferry, says that there never was such a rush of people to Atlantic City as has been the case, thus far, this season. There are quite a num ber of our first families there, and distin guished personages from the interior. It is expected that the Count of Landsfelt will go down on the train this afternoon. The • half-past four o'clock train for Long Branch also starts from Vine-street wharf, and it is likely that a large number of ladies and gentlemen will go to the Branch this after noon. The tables and the - 'hotels are all well stocked with the luxuries and necessaries of life at both Long Branch and Atlantic City. PHILADELPHIA MEDICAL COLLEGES.— Most of the medical colleges of our city are being renovated and repaired, preparatory to the opening in the fall. The Jefferson Medi cal College has had its building repaired, and the illaseeting-room enlarged. A large at tendance is anticipated—the number heing augmented principally by new members from the Southern States. Dr. Biddle, of this city, has been elected to the Chair of Materia Medi car recently occupied by the late Dr. Mitchel?. The Pennsylvania Medical College has re cently passed into new hands, and the title of the institution has been changed to that of the Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery. The building has been thoroughly °Verbal/led and put in the best order. The mus.eum and dissecting-room have been en. larged. The session will commence on the 1903 of October next. The University of Penn sylvania, one of the oldest and most flourish ing medical institutions in this country, will open under.the most favorable auspices. aura, Trem.--These are distressingly dull times. The Aldermen of the city sit in their offices, but nothing turns up to draw forth their legal talents. Policemen have nothing to do but seek a shady nook on their posts_ The prison-van drives past the Mayor's office, but finds no one to take away;.and the old office looks gloomy indeed. Yesterday there was not a case heard, and reporters looked around for a chip of some kind, but little or nothing was discovered. The fact is, the weather is so intensely hot that people keep cool as possible; and a fight cannot be gOtten-up even among the bootoblacks,who are a hot•blooded crowd as a general thing. CUMBERLAND COAL AND IMPROVEMENT COMPANY.—It will he seen, by reference to our ,adyertising columns, that this company has Organized by selecting a board of directors composed of nine Philadelphia gentlemen. Among these are some of our most enterpris ing and reliable business men, and they will undoubtedly carry the company to the highest possible point of success. It is a striking eri_ donee of the `'aloe of the lands owned by the company, that gentlemen of such high bnsis ness character are willing to embark in their development. DISTRESSING OCCUERENCE.—Yesterday morning persons in the vicinity of Washing ton Avenue and Swanson street were horrified at seeing a man throw himself under a freight, car which was passing that locality. The wheels passed over his stomach, crushing him badly, and causing almost instant death. He was subsequently recognized as Henry W. Erdman, ftgod twenty-seven, formerly First Lieutenant of Company I, Sist Pennsylvania Volunteers. IwAuclunvrtosT.—The Ashland Cricket Club will inaugurate their new grounds, Co. lumbla avenue, above Ridge avenue, this after noon. A scrub match wilt be played by the members of the Club—game to commence at three o'clock. •The public are invited. Seats reserved for ladies. SLIGHT PME.—About ten o'clock last evening, a fire was discovered in the Spice mill, corner of Broad and Arch streets. The flames were extinguished before any great damage was done. FtsuED OUT.—On Thursday night, the harbor police heard a splash in the Delaware, at Willow-street wharf, and, on proceeding there, fished out a man known as Major Mans field, who had jumped overboard while labor ing under a fit of lapacy. UNITED STATES SOLDIERS' AND SAIL- . ORS' Hems OF P732iNBYLVANIA.—The board of managers of the ,6 United States Soldiers' and Sailors' Home of Pennsylvania' , present the following to the public as the aim and dis tinctive character of this Associatitn Our aim is to found a Home for our disabled soldiers and sailors, upon a plan liberal and Bevel. The name we have chosen indicates that, although an institution for the State of Pennsylvania, the Home will be open to re ceive and shelter maimed soldiers of other loyal States of the 'Union. We design to lo cate it as near to Philadelphia as may consist with our means, to buy a tract of land of suit able extent for easy tillage by the inmates, and for the erection of shops and machinery for light mechanical and manufacturing labor, with ,cottages for the Occupancy of inmates and their dependent femilie9. .AS nearly as possible, the Home snail be self-Supporting. A school for the instruction of the younger men will be provided, as also means for edu cating and training to industry the children within the guardianship of the institution. We are sure the last-named part of our plan, to wit, the reception of soldiers with their families to the fostering care of the Home, will meet the hearty approval of the patriotic and grateful public, as the bare suggestion of it gladdens the hearts of anxious, brave men, whose maimed and crippled condition leaves themselves and theirfamilies hopelessly poor. A word as to our distinctive future course: We hoped to have seen the various efforts now making in this Commonwealth for our dis abled soldiers and their sullerim , families, blended in a single organization foirthe attain ment of one grand result such as we contem plate ; but having striven to effect union with kindred associations thus far unsuccessfully, and the plan wo propose, as above, being so pe culiar, we shall endeavor to carry it out as a distinct organization, under. proper charter from the State; and, therefore, we call upon our fellow-citizens for their generous counte nance and co.OperatiOn. We have two effident solicitors employed to raise funds; Mr. T. Atkinson and Mr. A. G. Thomas, late faithful chaplains in the military hospital and field ; whose ti nd labors we have engaged at a moderate cappensation, the more speedily to advance our work. Contributions may be also remitted to the Superintendent, Mr. A. Martin, No. MI. Chest nut stacet, Philadelphia. Luaus Pottocg, President. WILLIAM STRONG, RICHARD NEWTON, Committee. J. FRANCIS BOURNS PulLeDELrarn, July 25, 1565. THE PRESS.-PRILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1865. DoIi:ATION.I3 TO TEE PENNSYLVANIA SOL DIER'S AND I SAILOIieB HOME, from, citizens of Framliford los. T. Vankirk....Bloo OCiiM. E. llickens $2 00 S. Wilde 50 00iSteph. Faunae 200- Mrs. H. Womrath. 20 °nil - lash 200 H. Garsce 25 00iJohn T. Farr 1 00 Rorie & Mackie.... 2000(E. C. Morris 100 Chas. Poulton 20 00fMr. Jones ...... .... 100 Alyrrn ft , Ervien.... 15 00,Geo. Warhurl . ... .. 100 Nitlll. liillees 10 00!ll. S. Hallowell .... 100 11 - curl - Rowland, Jr 10 OW Geo. A. Pryor 100 1-laye'S Jr. Ellis 10 00Veo. Iforrocko 100 W.H. Rhawn 10 00,Cash 100 Thos. Ca5t0r....... 'lO 00; Chas. Hallowell_ 100 N. N. Smedley -10 OOIJ. D. Youlnalt 100 F. Womrath 10 00 N. Carr 100 Win. Balrllvin 500 E. C. Shaw 1 00 S.lltickel 5 00 W. T. Wright 1 00 Mr. Poopcs.... .... t ot. Samuel, Cooper • 1 , 00 John MellTuller 3 0111. Golloday.... „„' 50 Terry Quickens.... sOO -- Ed. Rowland. 2 00 Total THE 215Tir UNION LEAGUE.—This re giment, the last Of those recruited by the !Mien League, have been mustered out of eervice. They have been, doing garrison duty At Fort Delaware for some time back. BASE BALL.-17nion, of Morrisania, New York, vs. Keystone. An exciting match game will be played this afternoon, between the above clubs. Seats reserved for ladies. KICKED BY A HORSE.-Henry Btoper t re siding at Tenth and W j illow streets, Was badly injured yesterday by being kicked by a horse Yesterday morning Edward Thompson was brought before Recorder Eneu by Officer Sharkey on a serious charge. F. W. Franklia testified that he held some money for a sol dier who was in Camp Cad walader. The sol dier sent for him, but upon his reaching the camp he was refused adMitlfdoll ; lle then re quested the prisoner, who was an enlisted man and acting in the capacity of a cleric at the camp, to sec the soldier for him. In a few days the prisoner called upon Mr. Franklin and presented a letter, purporting to have come from the soldier, for $lOO. Mr. Franklin handed him the money and gave him Ave dol lars for his trouble. The letter was subse gnently discovered to be a forgery, and the prisoner made his boasts of how nicely he ob , tabled the $lO5. The Recorder informed him that the case was one of stealing, and held him in $l,OOO bail to answer. John Simpson, a delicate looking man, charged George Bruce, yesterday, with com mitting a violent assault and battery' upon bin]. He said, in backing his cart at the Er icsson line of steamers t li struck against the vehicle of Bruce, who inflicted a number of blows and kicks upon him. He further said that he was weak, both in body and mind, hav ing buried one of his children the day before. Bruce said that Simpson hacked into his Wa gon intentionally. The Recorder said that was no excuse for his beating him. Bruce then said that Simpson struck him with his whip. Mr. Simpson acknowledged thiS, but said did not do so until after he was beaten. The Recorder said he had a right to defend himself, and held Bruce in WO to answer. Geo. W. Trexler, alias Baker, wag before Ald. Shoemaker yesterday to answer the charge of having robbed a man in a cell where they were incarcerated for intoxication. George denied the soft impeachment, but the money, seventy dollars, was found in his boot. He was sent to prison, to answer at comp.. A rather novel case came before Alderman Gibson yesterday. William Partington is the proprietor of a brewery in the rural - districts, and caused the arrest of an Englishmannamed James L. Burks on a charge of assault and bat tery. A friend and fellow-countryman Of the !atter, named William Lees, went to the brew ery subsequently, aud, turning the splekets of the ale barrels, caused about $2OO of the liquid to go to waste. The Alderman committed both of the men to prison. Alderman frOblaes committed a young man named Mahlon Scott, yesterday, On the charge of picking a man's pocket of ten dollars. At a late hour on Thursday night, Officer liimes discovered a light in the cellar of a house at Nineteenth and Callowhill streets. As he approached the building the light was suddenly extinguished, whereupon he entered the house and captured a man in the kitchen. The prisoner says that his name is illenry Walker, that he is a native of England, and recently from Buffalo, New York. Alderman Hutchinson sent him to Moyamensing. CAPTVRE OF AN ALLEGED 110101 E-THIEF A few days since a valuable horse was stolen from New York city, and it, together with the alleged thief, were traced to Cornwall Station. A constable arrested the individual, who gave the name of Ferdinand IConig, but he effected his escape. The Constable then came to this City, and cave a description of the fugitive to - Reserve Oftleer Creighton, who succeeded In arresting him. Upon his person was found an old-fasbnoned revolver, heavily loaded. lie was locked up at the CentmtStatipn. , . , THE PROVIDENT LIFN AND TRUST INCORPORATED BY THE STATE OF PENS BYLVANIA, 3D MO., 22D, MS. Insures 'Lives, Allows Interest oirbepo. sits, and Grants Annuities. CAPITAL, 6160,000: • . ./..,-, - -. DIRE ORS. ' '''-: ' ~ • i SAMUEL R. SHIP I I.O4 , OA.PRITRY, JEREMIAH MAC ,- AIN ES, _ JOSHVA li. 'MOREL r? . s " W. IS AR BROWN, RICHARD woopo -- Wleks'o. L01461-STRETH, ,• _, S. -P.-I:IOF.FIN., ' 'n44l Kett E. SHIPLEY, _..c 'ff 5 .,...,__ 7 PRESIDENT. ROWLAND PAREX, 09.0PIIARY. TEMPORARY OFFICE, No. 247: sotlTll TLLIRD STREET, . BASEMENT. JAS-tu.thsly DELAWARE - MUTUAL SAFETY INSURANCE COMPANY. INCORPORATED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ; PENNSYLVANIA, 1835. OFFICE S. R. CORNER THIRD ANA WALNUT '- STREETS., PHILADELPHIA. - MARINE INSURANCES ON VESSELSJ CARGQ,_ - To all parts of the world. FREIGHT, LAND INSURANCES On Goods, by River, Canal, Lake, and Land Car riage to all arts of the Union. INSURANCES (ip Merchandise generally. - On Stores, D*MELng $OOOOll, • ASSETS OF THE COMPANY, November 1, 1864. MOO,OOO United States 5 per cent. 10an, , 71...100,000 00 111,000 " " 118,215 00 75,000 " ' 6 " " 75,562 50 100,000 State _oL....P_e_nnaylvanLs Five Per CenVl-I,an 93,655 00 64,M0 State or Peztaaylvattianix Per Cent. y Loan 06,840 123,050 Cit of Philadelphia Six Per Cent. 06 Loan 20,000 Pennsylvania Railroad First Mort ' gage Six Per Cent. Bonds - 22,000 00 50,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Secohd Mortgage Six - Per Cent. Bonds... 53,260 00 15,000,500 Shares • btook , -Germantown aim Company, principal and interest . guaranteed by the, pity of flits delphla Ito 00 5,500,120 Shares Stock Pennsylvania Rail, 14 , road company O,IOYIIO 5,000,000 Shares 8002:North Pennsylvallia Railroad Company 3,060 00 50,000 'United States :Treasury Certill cates'or Indebtedness.4B 4 42s 00 80 4 4 entle State of Tssee Fiv Per Cent. Loan 12,000 00 78,700 Loans on"Botidtr add Mortgage. , amply secured- 128,700 00 9,868,250 Par. Cos: 4 0100.50. Market va140857,827 97 Real Es 38,000 OD Bills "reselvable for insurances made 118,880 42 Dalances due at Agencies.—, Pre miums on Marine Policip.s,..e.o. `•• crued Interest, and other , debts due the Company t • 28,798 21 Scrip and Stock of sundry Insur 'ance and other Companies, 01,- 21111. Estimated value Cosh on deposit with 11. 15,,Doverrnent, 'sub ject to ten days' leit,./ 00 0 00 ao Cash lu 8ank5...........800M 02 Cash in Drawer.... .... .. 587 58 ---;$158,&13 99 $4201.00qa - DIRE• Thomas John ,Davlo, Edmund 0.. Soude ,r Theophiluaßaulding, John-H,:frenrose, James/Piaui:Lair, 'Henry C.; Dallett, Jr., James O. Hand, William C. Ludwig, Joseph H. Seal, George G. Caper, ' 'Hugh - Craig, Robert Burton, ' _ sarriuel E. Stokes, - THOMAS JOHN O. D HENRY L'rmitrnx, Sec. TH I EJ - pLIANCE INSURANCE .w :„ bo OF PHILADELPHIA.. , i I"-rntrdifElli". lies *Alai'VfriVll.M. et.ual . CAPITAL, $300,000. . ~ Insures against Loss or Damage by FIDE Houses,' Stores, an otherßuildings, limited or perpetual; and on Furniture , Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, in town or oonntry. , . ...„ _ LOSSES PROMPTLY ADJUSTED SAND PAID. A55ET5,5400,0816.71.. ' . 4 Invested In the following Semites; via: First Mortgages on City Propertyors se cured '. $lO6 600 00 y 6 1 o . te I United States Government Loans • - ,141.,C10D 00 Philadelphia City 6 per cent. Loans 50,070 OD Pennsylvania $3,000,000 6 per cent. Loan.. 15,000 00 Pennsylvania Railroad Bonds, first and second Mortgagee 165,060 00 Camden and Amboy Railroad Company's 6 per cent. Loan 6,000 00 . Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Com pany's 6 per cent. Loan 5,000 00 Huntingdon and Broad Top 7 per cent. Mortgage Bonds - 4,560 00 County Fire Insurance Company's Stock.. 1,050 05 Mechanics' Bank Stinks 4,000 00 Commercial Bank of Pennsylvania Stock.. 10,000 00 Union Mutual Insurance Company's Stock 380 00 Reliance Insurance Company of Philadel phia's Stock Accrued Interest Cash In bank and on hand Worth at present market MEC" Clem Tingley, Wm. R. Thompson, William Musser, Samuel Bispbam, H. L. Carson, Robert Steen, CLEM THOMAS C. HILL,_ Seer, ERILADELPHIA4 UCCeMI FAKE n'TBITRANi No. 406 CHEW FIRE AND ISLA'. Francis N. Buck DI"(